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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - WORLDWIDE AND EINSTEIN TO PRODUCE TOTP FOR ITALY
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal to develop the Top of the Pops (right) format for the Italian market with local producer Einstein Multimedia.TOTP producer Chris Cowey will be working with
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - IGER PROMOTED TO ABC GROUP CHAIRMAN
ABC president Robert Iger has been promoted to ABC group chairman and given responsibility for the overseas operations of the US network's parent company, Disney. Iger will be responsible for the
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TRADE TALK - Dele's vision
Dele Oniya wants to take multicultural programming to the mainstream. Now at Carlton, he feels he is in the right place to do it. Lucy Rouse reports.
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TRADE TALK - On the box
Anglia Television's controller of factual Andrea Cornes on Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age and Queer as Folk.
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TRADE TALK - Jonathan Davis
The moving of ITV's main news bulletin next week has been heralded in the press as the declaration of a ratings war with the BBC. The failure of BBC spokesmen to
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Is TV sex a big turn-off?
Sex on TV attracts virulent press condemnation but few complaints from viewers, and, perhaps most surprising of all, small audiences. Tim Dams asks if sex has lost its pulling power.
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OPINION - A seminal moment in UK broadcasting
Seminal moments in British broadcasting occur far less often than network controllers and programme publicists would have us believe. But, make no mistake, 8 March 1999 is a day destined for
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OPINION - Off message
It takes two to tango, and, so it seems, at least two to broadcast a jazz music station.Jazz FM has become the latest radio station catering to minority tastes to realise
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CURRENT AFFAIRS - Time up for current affairs?
With TV current affairs in the doldrums, much hangs on the launch of new ITV contender Tonight in the old News at Ten slot. If the programme fails to find an audience, it may leave the genre fatally weakened. John Plunkett reports.
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ITV SPECIAL - And finally
As the last bong sounds for News at Ten, ITV director of programmes David Liddiment talks about the launch of his new peaktime schedule, freed up by the axing of the long-running bulletin.
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INTERVIEW - Testing times ahead
Jane Root sees BBC 2 as a 'laboratory' for British TV. But three months into her job as controller of BBC 2, the controversy over the axing of One Man and his Dog shows she has her work cut out refocusing the channel
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ADVERTISER-FUNDED PROGRAMMING - Commercial break
Programme producers and advertisers are beginning to make tentative advances towards each other. Will it be a marriage made in heaven or is a messy divorce just around the corner? Lucy Rouse investigates.
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OFF THE RECORD - Blast from the past
Who is this fresh-faced young thing (below) posing for an ad which Off The Record unearthed for September Films' British Sex on Sky One? Why, it's none other than gorgeous Kelly
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OFF THE RECORD - Accidents will happen
Viewer-friendly ITN was naturally concerned last week when it received a phone call complaining about its coverage of the Grammy Awards. Plenty of pictures of a muscle-bound Madonna, moaned the caller,
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OFF THE RECORD - Radio daze
If there's one thing to be learned from Lorraine Heggessey's hilarious on-air apology last year on behalf of a certain Blue Peter presenter, it's that controllers should stick to doing just
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OFF THE RECORD - The party's over
OTR is grateful to Noel Edmonds for pointing us towards the real reason why his side-splitting House Party has gone down the pan. Worn-out Gotchas?The demise of Mr Blobby? Er, no.
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OFF THE RECORD - Boogie nights
ITV big kahuna David Liddiment has really earned his nickname this time.His latest commission from Yorkshire TV, The Day Britain Turned Disco, is proof indeed of Disco Dave's yearning to be
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OFF THE RECORD - Table for two
The frosty relations between Channel 4 and The Guardian - glacial since C4's Hard News put the paper's coverage of The Connection affair under the microscope - appear to be thawing.
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